Isabel Allende: How to live passionately-no matter your age | TED

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  • Author Isabel Allende is 71. Yes, she has a few wrinkles-but she has incredible perspective too. In this candid talk, meant for viewers of all ages, she talks about her fears as she gets older and shares how she plans to keep on living passionately.
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  • @parisamaftoun175
    @parisamaftoun175 10 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    "I am not scare of being vulnerable. I do not see it as a weakness anymore" that is definitely a sentence I have needed to hear these days and I will start it from now.

  • @domilontano
    @domilontano 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That last was some genius wit! Presented with an absolutely inappropriate question, Allende diffused the super awkward situation by playing along and making a hilarious joke! Well done!

  • @sierrakai
    @sierrakai 10 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    One of my favorite writers. Her books are such a gift as are her personal stories. Thanks TED Talks for this presentation.

  • @suzannelaforce6988
    @suzannelaforce6988 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I JUST love her!!!... There is a reason why she is my favorite author!!!... Listen to her... Isn't she terrific???

  • @artmeakin
    @artmeakin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Nice. She says: "It's great to let go... I should have started doing it sooner." Great advice. I know the older I get the less important are the things that upset me the most in the past. Say "yes" to whatever comes our way. Life. Nice.

    • @jamessteele7102
      @jamessteele7102 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, those are good points she made. Easier said than done though.

  • @marcelanunez7644
    @marcelanunez7644 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Such a refreshing way of seeing life. She speaks so casually that I can't truly pin her a certain age.
    She's ageless, that she is.

  • @whateverfixmyaccount
    @whateverfixmyaccount 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Have the haters who posted awful comments actually read "any" of Isabel,s books or seen earlier ott inspiring videos ? She is an inspiring , passionate woman who has given so much of herself ! How many of you judgmental ageists have met the people she has ?

  • @alejakaled
    @alejakaled 10 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    I don't get all these hateful comments against her speech. She's a woman who regardless of her status, has suffered a lot in her life, and she is still positive and trying to share that with people.
    She's also a very important latin american author, and that's what authors do, they share their stories.

    • @Chamelionroses
      @Chamelionroses 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is the internet these days it seems no matter youtube or social networking else where.

    • @thumbprint7150
      @thumbprint7150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There are a lot of positive comments too, why dwell on what you call the hateful comments? In fact, I wrote a negative comment without it being hateful at all. I think she is a wonderful woman; I simply disagree with and find disappointing what she has to say here. More than that, I think some of the comments are rather damaging to women. However, I am an admirer of Allende and that has not changed. People are entitled to an opinion which differs from yours.

    • @martinhablaespagnol
      @martinhablaespagnol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      could not find hateful comments far down - she is great anyway - read a lot of her books - and enjoyed it so much.....

  • @FangsShadow
    @FangsShadow 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really liked her books when I was younger, they still are among my favourite. She seems like someone who always sees beauty and magic in the simplest of things

  • @bonnie4552
    @bonnie4552 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Once she said that line from that poem (one if my favorites by the way) I haven't stopped smiling at this tedtalk.

    • @afiqmeli7320
      @afiqmeli7320 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Bonnie Quack what the title of the poem?

  • @ChillTheFuckOutMeditations
    @ChillTheFuckOutMeditations 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    She put the biggest smile on my face!

  • @inakifernandez2849
    @inakifernandez2849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Most of ted talks I cannot finish, but this one was worth watching, I love Isabel and her positivity. ❤️

  • @Deusmecumest
    @Deusmecumest 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What a wonderful woman.

  • @pablogaracenas
    @pablogaracenas 9 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This woman is very inteligent, she have wrote many commentaries in the 70s in a Chilean magazine, always very fun and creative, I love her books

  • @sampurna659
    @sampurna659 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    She's beautiful.So motivating.

  • @sofijakalezic766
    @sofijakalezic766 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Izabel, hvala Ti na tvojim romanima❤iz kojih mnogo može da se nauči o darovima prirode, Bogu, sudbini, različitostima, ljubavi... ❤

  • @sherylhokianga3
    @sherylhokianga3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I Don’t Feel 72yrs Old!...I’m Sure Some Yrs Escaped Me Somewhere Along My Life’s Journey!..Due 2 This!..and, Due 2 That!..I’m Loving Life More Now!...Than, When I Did!...When I Was a 17 yrs Old!..That Feeling!...Of, Not Having 2 Prove Anything 2 Anybody Anymore!..Love This Speech!!!

  • @rocketgirl327
    @rocketgirl327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love her because she's so honest and direct. She's like a breath of fresh air, natural and whimsical.

  • @revolutie
    @revolutie 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    great positive energy

  • @Exceltrainingvideos
    @Exceltrainingvideos 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    That was so from the heart!

  • @johananatura2373
    @johananatura2373 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Passion. I love that word...

  • @sarahelizabeth3551
    @sarahelizabeth3551 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At the end of her speech she really said yes to life

  • @fakerrichtig9055
    @fakerrichtig9055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love her books, I have cried a lot when I read her book Paula, her words motivate me

  • @seanvsn
    @seanvsn หลายเดือนก่อน

    I adore this woman so much it's insane

  • @phyllissnook
    @phyllissnook 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is WONDERFUL! She hit the nail right on the head & it made me not only laugh but to laugh as well!!!

  • @priyashmukherjee3015
    @priyashmukherjee3015 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *A LIVING LEGEND*

  • @mariancarcache8884
    @mariancarcache8884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful and brilliant woman. And one of the best writers of our time.

  • @mariacucuiet7841
    @mariacucuiet7841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love her ! she's absolutely adorable. I've read her book, Paula, twice. I'm intending to read it once again. + all her other books.

  • @mariafernanda-bi8ke
    @mariafernanda-bi8ke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nao posso terminar o dia sem ouvir a Voz suave, nostalgica e a Sabedoria das suas palavras. A sua sensibilidade, a Verdade da sua vida com a Dor levada com uma admiravel Coragem, o exemplo do amor Sem Idade que no seculo 21 ainda e espantosamente envergonhado e abafado. Obrigada Isabel Allende por tentar heroicamente ACORDAR as mulheres do mundo inteiro.

  • @InkubusGames
    @InkubusGames 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    She is awesome!

  • @michaelkrumbein5807
    @michaelkrumbein5807 10 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Somewhere, there is a restaurant that has named their Burrito Especial "Antonio Banderas"

  • @AnimeSlaps
    @AnimeSlaps 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Very nice TED Talk today!

  • @tcskill17
    @tcskill17 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    passion... nice topic. K this is my opinion on how to remain passionate and most of all DRIVEN throughout your life.
    Boom
    1. Follow your dreams and your purpose
    2. Surround yourself with younger people once you hit 35. You provide them the wisdom, they provide you the... Energy!!
    enjoy :)

  • @rosamnaranjo1
    @rosamnaranjo1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful Isabel love your books !and lives your stories ! ❤️🌹

  • @mariafernanda-bi8ke
    @mariafernanda-bi8ke 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maravilhosa Isabel Allende.

  • @pronunciacionconben
    @pronunciacionconben 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this author. ❤

  • @mctm1221
    @mctm1221 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I feel a bit sad for people who have negative views when watching TED , they seem a bit narrow minded...usually they take one comment from the talk and throw it way out of proportion ..they so need to chill ...

  • @nancypineda3973
    @nancypineda3973 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A chilean :D I love her books and I find the talk nice

  • @HenryStradford
    @HenryStradford 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Isabel Allende: How to live passionately-no matter your age #tedtalks

    • @farahgodoy
      @farahgodoy 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      muy hermoso:)

  • @kornelijapalle6468
    @kornelijapalle6468 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, Isabel!

  • @mayahakimm
    @mayahakimm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    Anybody here from Jane the virgin?

  • @alibarakat8213
    @alibarakat8213 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I really like it when I see or hear about old but still active and happy humans, sometimes I feel sorry for them because they've probably known lots of people who have kicked the bucket already.
    I know lots of people who don't like the fact of being old and unfortunately they wish if they die before being old. I totally don't agree about their opinion but I think why don't they ask the almighty Allah for a blessed life, am 14 and I wish a joyful and active long life.

  • @digitaldystopiaVR
    @digitaldystopiaVR 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is no passion there is serenity

  • @CapriccioCello
    @CapriccioCello 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤💐a great great Writer,muchas gracias 🙏

  • @orquideagonzalez8294
    @orquideagonzalez8294 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jubilacion és nuestro momento. No debemos nada a la sociedad. És una celebracion sim dudas. Gracias por el despertar

  • @teriscallon
    @teriscallon 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love her

  • @BreMontez
    @BreMontez 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    TAN HERMOSA!!!!
    Sus libros son un escape... Esta mujer si sabe hacer reir consolo 2 o 3 palabras !!!

  • @Paulistaninha
    @Paulistaninha 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fabulous!

  • @al.threee
    @al.threee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Who’s here after watching Jane the Virgin?

  • @Victoria-yf5rr
    @Victoria-yf5rr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this woman

  • @anarcho-communist11
    @anarcho-communist11 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Isabelle Allande.

  • @ogreatperkyone
    @ogreatperkyone 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    LOVE IT!

  • @carturo92
    @carturo92 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's great! ALLENDE! =)

  • @JoseGamboa
    @JoseGamboa 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Feisty, funny, and a fantastic author. And still fabulous :)

  • @hoejoey6457
    @hoejoey6457 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just read her story now!

  • @MsPatataki
    @MsPatataki 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    es una mujer brillante. La adoro!

  • @Jhon5200
    @Jhon5200 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE how she says Antonio Banderas! :D So awesome!

  • @aparice1
    @aparice1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Look out Antonio Banderas, there's a tortilla with your name on it somewhere

  • @user-pi9et6yy4h
    @user-pi9et6yy4h 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Όταν ακούς να μιλά η Isabel Allende είναι οργασμός αυτιών, όταν ακούς τους άλλους είναι διάλεξη.

  • @lucianaalmeida1471
    @lucianaalmeida1471 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Que mulher maravilhosa! 👏👏👏👏🥰💖

  • @moniaelbiche3094
    @moniaelbiche3094 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yess yess become complacent accept weakness accept your fate ditch ambition and dreams, live like a realist with no passion for learning, then you will be happy... right. I will feel like I wasted my life if I think in this way by her age

  • @ismayilparuthikkode7095
    @ismayilparuthikkode7095 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great

  • @edmundpotrzeba6094
    @edmundpotrzeba6094 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your not invisible to me ❤️

  • @AveryMilieu
    @AveryMilieu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    ""Unless you are sick or very poor, you always have choices.""
    What about those who are sick and poor?
    Or what about those girls sold into slavery?

    • @RoyManter
      @RoyManter 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      inclusive or there

    • @SangoProductions213
      @SangoProductions213 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      then you occasionally have decent choices. You always have choices no matter what. Whether they get you killed or worse is another question. But the answer you are looking for was probably so obvious you didn't intend to get an answer as much as make a statement.

    • @AveryMilieu
      @AveryMilieu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      True. I really don't need a reply or response to my comment. Frankly, I found her arrogant and privileged and pointless.
      Her blithe dismissal of those people who really do have few, if any, real choices was actually a bit offensive.
      And that "you always have choices" that YOU droning, SangoProductions21 is a load of crap. A choice implies there are options. "Yes" or "No" is not offering options. Not a choice.

    • @SangoProductions213
      @SangoProductions213 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      except in the most extreme of circumstances, where you are physically restrained, you will always have a choice.
      And even then, you can choose to struggle, or accept it. Even if it's a fruitless choice, it is still one you have.
      So, to say "you don't have choice" is pretty much as hard to achieve as you possibly can get.
      Know what? Choice could be taken away via drugs. Particularly forced application of said drugs.

    • @AveryMilieu
      @AveryMilieu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      SangoProductions21
      Either Or is not really offering a choice. It's another version of "...Or Else".
      Werner Erhardt used to hit his EST classes with a question: "Chocolate or Vanilla - choose one." The response was to choose one and say "I choose (whatever) because I choose (whatever)." The response of "I choose none." was not allowed, but it represented a real OPTION that Werner didn't, wouldn't consider. What if I choose nothing because I choose nothing?
      And so it is with life. The third options are not offered. No choices. Like floodwater racing through a canyon. Go this way or nowhere.
      Back to the original subject. The speaker obviously came from a place of wealth and privilege where MENUS of options are offered to her to choose from. Many, many people don't have any option but to plod on or die.
      Either Or.
      No choice.
      Unless you feel that those who are too poor to afford menus to choose from are free to make the "Or" choice and die.

  • @walterneiss993
    @walterneiss993 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I fully understand that Isabel Allende is a recognised writter and it gives "some" credits to her, but she spent almost all the time talking about her and showing pictures of her with important people. WTF.

  • @carlaalejandra595
    @carlaalejandra595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Y el premio Nobel cuando ????

  • @jorgedefoe1
    @jorgedefoe1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good tip would be to avoid fluoride....

  • @bnkundwa
    @bnkundwa 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A mi padre le gustaba hablar el castellano.

  • @user-sn6jv5dv9s
    @user-sn6jv5dv9s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think you forgot that youth is also one of the “any” age...

  • @khatriabderrahman2230
    @khatriabderrahman2230 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very beautiful

  • @atwaterpub
    @atwaterpub 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where can I find a job?

  • @MoraGladys
    @MoraGladys 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    ¿Podrían traducirlo porf?

  • @nezaspajzer5299
    @nezaspajzer5299 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i have her resume ❤️❤️

  • @minimaxhall
    @minimaxhall 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    HAHA! I love this woman! ;)

  • @tanujapanchal2297
    @tanujapanchal2297 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🙏🌷🙏

  • @NeonAtary777
    @NeonAtary777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That erotic fantasy at the end killed me

  • @VNn2023
    @VNn2023 ปีที่แล้ว

    👏👏👏💯💯💯

  • @cdjwmusic
    @cdjwmusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks to his uncle, chile in the 70s was like venezuela or cuba nowadays :/

    • @luisalarcon8105
      @luisalarcon8105 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, but what happened next, was the darkest years in Chile's history. Believe me, Chile remembers to Salvador Allende as the best president ever, I'm chilean.

    • @cdjwmusic
      @cdjwmusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Luis Alarcon seee obvio wn el mejor presidente

    • @cdjwmusic
      @cdjwmusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Luis Alarcon sin allende no hubiese habido pinochet.

    • @cdjwmusic
      @cdjwmusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      anyway. to the guys who are reading this:
      allende was a commie, and not much people remembers him.

    • @cdjwmusic
      @cdjwmusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just to give you an idea of how Allendes "goverment" was: People had to do queues to get milk and stuff, poor people had not much to eat, everything was pretty much fucked up cause they didnt allow private property

  • @luzr.e.7562
    @luzr.e.7562 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Unless you are ill or very poor..." :\

  • @justgivemethetruth
    @justgivemethetruth 10 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    God how I detest these people who are supposed to be some kind of experts in how to live, as if they know some secret to life or are experts in living, or just because they smile and are positive. Do people really need to be reminded of this, and why in such a superficial way?

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *****
      See, the reason I hate these kind of people and talks is that they attract stupid people like you who call people names if they don't agree with you about wearing your rose colored sunglasses.
      You really are stupid too because unsubscribing from this channel would be a poor reaction because then I would not get to see the good videos. You're just an obnoxious dolt who seems to like to try to hide it behind trying to seem mindlessly positive. So, next time you get the urge to belittle someone you don't know think a bit, then just shut up, Mr. Positive.

    • @AnimeSlaps
      @AnimeSlaps 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Personally, I don't see anyone as an expert, but being 19, I know that people like this have more 'experience' in life than I do, so I enjoy their conversations and what they have to say!

    • @godeketime
      @godeketime 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I think detesting someone for sharing life experiences pretty much underscores the truth of Ahmed's comment. Maybe you don't need this talk at this time, but I fail to see how taking a public dump here in the comments is *better* than sharing such experience.

    • @DuckieThirteen
      @DuckieThirteen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree! Try telling someone who has nothing or very little to "live life" positively and enjoy it by doing "these" things. Please, sh*t like this makes me vomit right now!
      Take away their money and let's see how "happy" or "passionate" they are then!
      TED has really gone down hill like the way this woman's body has!!
      (Disclaimer: Currently in bad mood. Not responsible for response due to the influence of negative energy!)

    • @ImDrizzt
      @ImDrizzt 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's cool and all the lady has lots of opinions about what makes her feel better and stuff, but kinda not what I have in mind when I think of a Ted Talk.

  • @renatampsi
    @renatampsi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤❤⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘

  • @thumbprint7150
    @thumbprint7150 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Allende has so much to say so this was disappointing in its platitudes. Why does she dwell on her appearance and how it has changed and how her body 'sags' and how she is no longer seductive and sexy; yet in the same breath she is saying she is happy that she no longer has to please men. I doubt a man giving a talk on living passionately in old age would diss his own appearance. And to say 'unless you are ill or poor, you have choices' was quite unfortunate as many older people are indeed both ill and poor and also need to be encouraged to live passionately. I think she played this for laughs and lightness and somehow just missed. Still, she is a marvellous writer so I will reread her books.

  • @giorgioye
    @giorgioye 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    is she relative of Salvador Allende? They have the same surname

  • @JodsLife1
    @JodsLife1 10 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    a bit ironic coming from some1 who has had tons of plastic surgery...but i liked the talk overall

    • @avedic
      @avedic 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My thought exactly.

  • @thelazyvegangirl_4413
    @thelazyvegangirl_4413 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What's wrong with being vegetarian ? She said she loved animals then she just turned around making jokes of not eating them? One of the principles of Buddhism is to abstain from meat and dairy, because all lives are equal and killing is a huge sin. She should have been more respectful on that note. It's not something to joke about.

  • @rm84tv
    @rm84tv 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    wonderful lady but out of all the pictures to represent "I don't have to please men" she picked the one with Bill Clinton please tell me im not the only one that laughed at that.

  • @KateMeowFrr
    @KateMeowFrr 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I loved everything, BUT the vegetarian comment.
    Being VEGAN, not even vegetarian, is the only way to truly live compassionately and healthfully. You can argue with that, but we'll see who lives longer with less hospital trips.

    • @constancecrooker
      @constancecrooker 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Annette, You look too young to be so uptight, and humorless. I live in a world of too many cancer patients, and I see juicers, vegetarians, and vegans struck down along with the rest of us omnivores. I hope you never have to join the cancer club, but, in my all too vast experience, picky eating doesn't immunize people from its ravages.
      Constance Emerson Crooker
      Author of Melanoma Mama: On Life, Death, and Tent Camping

    • @carsonhunt4642
      @carsonhunt4642 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Really should have left out "compassionately". To say that to only live that way is by being vegan is extremely ignorant. Not sure you understand what compassionately even means by how stupid that sounded.
      Anyways on regards to living healthy, in terms of longevity only, there hasn't been any longterm studies that prove that. In fact most would argue against it. Sure such things as salmon are so bad for you!!.
      Anyways the speech was a dumb one.
      She's has plastic surgery, and just talks about having erotic fantasies. Okay.... That encourages me to live passionately.

    • @KateMeowFrr
      @KateMeowFrr 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Carson Hunt you're so basic omg

  • @sandraboseindiagestao
    @sandraboseindiagestao 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very depressing to get old :-(

  • @wautersandreas
    @wautersandreas 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Since when is ambition a deadly sin? O.o.

  • @A-samy
    @A-samy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    يارب صل وسلم على الهادي البشير...
    انا مفهمتش حاجه😂.

  • @xxmightyonexx
    @xxmightyonexx 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The umpteenth time she insulted her own appearance and sexuality (due to the perfectly normal biological process of aging), I was "Peace out" this was NOT the talk I came to see -- very disappointing.
    "I no longer have to please men." Wow, lady. So many off-base, depressed remarks in such a short period of time; it felt more like therapy than inspiration.

  • @zacharyp32
    @zacharyp32 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ambition a Sin? Wtf?

  • @intramotus
    @intramotus ปีที่แล้ว

    cringeworthy .. and I'm a fan

  • @feygan
    @feygan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Perhaps I am just plain miserable but this woman comes across as a Joan Rivers ripoff, minus the humour and honesty. She has clearly has work done on her face at some stage, was it before or after her great revelation on how to live? She makes lots of small quips and adds handfuls of innuendo to the talk, but it all falls flat. What makes the Joan Rivers work is the upfront honesty and profanity, while such a talk could never really happen at TED doesn't mean you can water it down and expect it to still taste the same.
    Nearly eight minutes of hypocrisy, this was not even entertainment. Also what was with the sycophant woman at the end of the talk? Is the normal sort of thing that happens at a TED talk?

    • @mrsbillforshort
      @mrsbillforshort 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The only thing she has in common with Joan Rivers is that they were older women in the public eye. This is Isabel Allende, former journalist and Chilean expat novelist who wrote House of Spirits. Sorry you're feeling down. So am I. Hope we all feel better soon.

  • @andreac8094
    @andreac8094 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Strange idea of all life - live to experience the passion.
    During 70 years, this woman has not found another charms of life.
    I think in every age We need to search your own charms. And have sexual passion when you are over 70 years old it's weird. It is time to think about eternity. And it says everything about it.

  • @Neueregel
    @Neueregel 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Fake, plastic and unwatchable. Unsubbed.

  • @morganthem
    @morganthem 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice cheap shot at vegetarianism. If you were so kind to animals you wouldn't have bothered to make that remark. Try coming full circle logically.

  • @23Bentley45
    @23Bentley45 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    She loves animals, but laughs at vegetarians? Ugh, That’s hypocrisy

  • @FelipeBudinich
    @FelipeBudinich 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Easy to say, when you get over 50K dollars a month from tax payers.

  • @lutalutamedia
    @lutalutamedia 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Possibly the worst TED talk to date right here. Just vapid nonsense.